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        <H2>About PRIDE Converter</H2>
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            PRIDE Converter has been developed by <a href="mailto:harald.barsnes@ii.uib.no?subject=PRIDE%20Converter">Harald Barsnes</a>
            (PhD student at <a href="http://iieng.iportal.uib.no/">the University of Bergen, Norway</a>) under the guidance of
            <a href="http://www.ebi.ac.uk/~lmartens/">Dr. Lennart Martens (EBI).</a><br><br>
            As of July 2009 further development and maintenance of PRIDE Converter has been turned over to the
            the <a href="http://www.ebi.ac.uk/pride/">PRIDE</a> team at the EBI. To contact the team send
            an e-mail to <a href="mailto:pride-support@ebi.ac.uk?subject=PRIDE%20Converter">pride-support@ebi.ac.uk</a>.<br><br>
            Project home page: <a href="http://pride-converter.googlecode.com">http://pride-converter.googlecode.com</a><br><br>
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        PRIDE Converter is based on three other projects:
        <ul>
            <li><a href="http://genesis.ugent.be/ms_lims">ms_lims</a></li>
            <li><a href="http://www.ebi.ac.uk/pride">PRIDE</a></li>
            <li><a href="http://www.ebi.ac.uk/ontology-lookup">OLS</a><br><br></li>
        </ul>

        In addition:

        <ul>
            <li>Mascot dat file parsing is done using the <a href="http://genesis.ugent.be/MascotDatfile">MascotDatfile Library</a></li>
            <li>iTRAQ calculation is based on a translation of the PERL code from <a href="http://www.cranfield.ac.uk/health/researchareas/bioinformatics/page6801.jsp">i-Tracker</a></li>
            <li>The platform independent graphical user interface uses code from <a href='http://www.jgoodies.com/index.html'>JGoodies</a></li>
            <li>Advanced JTables from <a href="https://swingx.dev.java.net/">SwingLabs SwingX</a></li>
            <li>mzXML parsing is done using <a href="http://tools.proteomecenter.org/wiki/index.php?title=Software:JRAP">JRAP</a></li>
            <li>mzML parsing is done using <a href="http://code.google.com/p/jmzml">jmzml</a></li>
            <li>OMSSA parsing is done using the <a href="http://code.google.com/p/omssa-parser">omssa-parser</a></li>
        </ul>


        <h3>License:</h3>
        PRIDE Converter: <a href="http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0">Apache License 2.0</a><br><br>

        The platform independent graphical user interface design uses <a href='http://www.jgoodies.com/index.html'>JGoodies</a> which has a separate
        <a href='#jGoodiesLicence'>licence</a>.<br><br>

        For licenses regarding Java see <a href="http://www.sun.com">www.sun.com</a>.<br><br>

        <h3>Help:</h3>
        Click the help icons in the bottom left corner of each frame for specific help,
        or see the Troubleshooting section at <a href="http://pride-converter.googlecode.com">http://pride-converter.googlecode.com</a>
        for more general tips and hints.
        <br><br>
        Any further questions can be forwarded to the PRIDE team at the EBI:
        <a href="mailto:pride-support@ebi.ac.uk?subject=PRIDE%20Converter">pride-support@ebi.ac.uk</a>.
        <br><br>

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            The converter has been tested on MS Windows XP, MS Windows Vista, Linux 
            and Mac. And should also work on older Windows versions and on other platforms, 
            as long as Java 1.5 (or newer) is installed.
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